Chapter 110: There are many mysteries
Shi Hui, the head abbot of Baochan Temple, is sixty years away this year. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Shi Hui has been sitting in the abbot position since the second year of the Republic of China and now has been in the position for almost 30 years. Shi Hui became a monk at the age of eight. In this well-known Baochan Temple, he can be regarded as a highly respected monk.
Shi Hui has been quite wise since he was a child, and his parents are devout Buddhists, and he has a strong interest in Buddhism. After he became the abbot, Baochan Temple was full of incense all year round.
Shi Hui has three proud apprentices, and the eldest apprentice Hui Neng is now in charge of all the affairs of Baochan Temple. The second apprentice, Huijue, is a master of preaching, and now he often goes to various places to open altars to preach the scriptures. Only the third apprentice Hui Ding made Shi Hui very troubled, and Hui Ding was no longer in Baochan Temple.
Huiding entered Baochan Temple at the age of eighteen, which means that Huiding entered Baochan Temple after living in the world for eighteen years. Huiding was exiled from Huizhou to Wuzhen, and in the era of war and chaos, Huiding was such a young man who was hungry and unclothed, and begged to Baochan Temple.
That year, Shi Hui saw Huiding who was already hungry outside the gate of Baochan Temple, but his eyes were shining brightly, which was different from ordinary people. Shi Hui saved Hui Ding's life, and also led Hui Ding to take refuge in the Three Jewels and start cultivating according to the precepts.
Huiding did have a Hui root, and he quickly grasped the teachings of Buddhism very thoroughly. He is more proficient in the scriptures and teachings than his master Shi Hui, but Shi Hui still found his fatal weakness in Hui Ding, and Hui Ding's six roots are endless. Although he is extremely intelligent, after all, he has lived in the world for many years, and he still has some inability to give up everything in the world.
Whenever a beautiful female pilgrim comes to the temple to make incense, Shi Hui can see a strange light in Hui Ding's eyes. This is disrespectful in the eyes of the monks.
Shi Hui admonished Huiding many times, but Huiding defended in every way. For this reason, Hui Ding was often punished by Shi Hui and thought about it behind closed doors for three days. The boring and long life of Buddhism did not eliminate his mortal disturbances. This made Shi Hui very angry, so he refused to take the ordination for Hui Ding.
Hui Ding lives alone in the meditation room by the bamboo forest of Baochan Temple, which is also deliberately arranged by Shi Hui, just to let Hui Ding be alone in a room and meditate on his own mistakes. Hui Ding didn't think so, he thought that he was not inferior to the other two apprentices of the master, but he was punished by the master everywhere. The tranquility in the depths of the bamboo forest did not bring him peace of mind, but it brought him resentment.
Hui Ding often passed through the secret passage through the back door of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion of Baochan Temple alone, bypassing the bamboo forest to go back to the meditation room where he lived. Except for the monks in the temple, no one knew about this road, and even if the pilgrims accidentally broke into the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, they would not find this secret passage at the back door.
After a rainy night four years ago, Huiding disappeared. Leaving no traces, he left quietly. Shi Hui sent people to look for many places after Hui Ding's disappearance, but he was nowhere to be found, and gradually gave up the idea of finding Hui Ding. Just as there was no warning when Hui Ding first came to Baozen Temple, his disappearance also had no warning.
Now, there are not many people in Baochan Temple who mention Huiding anymore. Only Shi Hui occasionally thinks of Hui Ding, Shi Hui remembers that Hui Ding told him that his name in the world is "Fang Tianyou", he is a native of Xiuning, Huizhou, and if he is still there, he should be thirty-seven or eighteen years old.
He must still be alive somewhere in this world, Shi Hui firmly believes this.